Scott St. John, who, like his late predecessor, Harry Keough, is able to talk to the dead and travel anywhere via Moebius strip. Scott becomes a spy in the E-Branch of the British Secret Service. When a government official suffers "evagination" (in effect, he's turned inside out like a glove), Scott and crew wind up on a mission to prevent a psychically gifted race, the Shing't, from destroying the Earth. The spirit of Scott's recently deceased wife permits him to dally with an extraterrestrial beauty, Shania, as well as, however implausibly, a shaggy female wolf.

2008-06-05 Some new material please?

I loved the Necroscope series, and the Vampire World series too. Mr Lumley created a very detailed universe in which the reader could immerse themselves. I was so very disappointed in The Touch for one reason. It's nothing new. Nothing new at all. Indeed, just swap the world `alien' for `vampire', and you have nearly an exact copy of his older works. I am writing this at four hundred pages into the book, and feel I must finish it, but each page is hard work because I feel like I've read it before! If we examine the main areas of the book: A: One man who spends over half the book trying to figure out his powers of talking to the undead and using a metaphysical continuum for transportation. B: He's driven by revenge. C: Three evil bad guys lurk in a gothic structure in the middle of nowhere doing bad things. Sound familiar? I realise it's set in the Necroscope universe, but this is an duplicate of everything Mr Lumley's done before. Such a let down...